Another issue wrapped up! About the only thing I'm going to talk about from this issue is my choice of the Weblink of the Month. "New Heaven, New Earth" has a strong component of writing about the Y2K problem. You can read what it is, what is being accomplished, what probably won't be accomplished, and scenarios of what could happen on January 1, 2000. For those of you who haven't thought about, much less become concerned about, the Year 2000 bug (not really a bug, just a supreme example of short-sightedness and so typical of "white minds"), I invite you to peruse the articles.
But don't forget to visit the second section of articles listed on the opening page. There's much more there than stories about the Y2K possible catastrophe.
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I reached a milestone in September, having passed the 50-year mark in my life. I didn't celebrate it much with people and was feeling down about that for a while. I shared that feeling with a member of the "Conversations" group. And lo, at the next meeting, he brought a cake, that he had made and frosted, to celebrate because he felt strongly that the 50th birthday was an important one in each person's life. (For reasons which I expect to learn more about this coming month.) What is interesting is that I felt immensely better. What little things it takes to make a person feel good.
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I'll close with a poem written back in Vermont where the colors are multi and the leaves come in all shapes and size.
Autumn's Song
ah, such a year of flaming reds
trees of crimson, cerise, magenta
golds with a reddish hue
afternoon's sun on the maples
shines through the glass twice brightly
makes morning again in my kitchen window
poplar's greening leaves tremble gold
as they light grey-arrowed copses
tamarack's soft needles the last
shine of sun color
amid the greying woods
so wondrous a light
so brief a time
Cherie Staples